Reviews

“This book has great potential to be useful as a guide to thinking about the global climate crisis and the politics necessary to overcome the problems.”· Jon Marshall, University of Technology Sydney

“A very relevant, interesting, and useful book.”· Ariel Salleh, University of Sydney

Description

As global economic and population growth continues to skyrocket, increasingly strained resources have made one thing clear: the desperate need for an alternative to capitalism. In Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia, Hans Baer outlines the urgent need to reevaluate historical definitions of socialism, commit to social equality and justice, and prioritize environmental sustainability. Democatic eco-socialism, as he terms it, is a system capable of mobilizing people around the world, albeit in different ways, to prevent on-going human socio-economic and environmental degradation, and anthropogenic climate change.

Hans A. Baer is a critical anthropologist and a Principal Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. He has published 20 books, including four related to climate change.

Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Contradictions of the Capitalist World System at the Beginning of the Twentieth-First CenturyChapter 2. Twentieth-Century Attempts to Create Socialism: Successes and FailuresChapter 3. Technoliberal and Countercultural Visions of the FutureChapter 4. Efforts to Reconceptualize SocialismChapter 5. The Role of Anti-systemic Movements in Creating a Socio-ecological RevolutionChapter 6. Transitional System-Challenging Reforms